As Mass Effect: Legendary Edition has gotten closer and closer, fans have been itching to see what the game's trophy list will look like. Now that it's here, the remastered trilogy is full to the brim with trophies from all three of the original games and a few extras on the side.
Boasting a whopping 130 individual trophies, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is nothing for trophy hunters to scoff at. Broken into four discrete lists, one for each game and one for the Legendary Edition as a whole, grabbing the remaster's three separate platinum trophies will be quite the feat. Fans of the series will recognize just about every trophy on the list but will notice the absence of any multiplayer trophies as the studio announced earlier this year that all multiplayer modes have been removed from the games. Newcomers to the series be warned, as some of the trophies contain spoilers for each of the games.
Platinum
Mass Effect
- N7 Elite: ME1: Acquire all trophies
Mass Effect 2
- N7 Elite: ME2: Acquire all trophies
Mass Effect 3
- N7 Elite: ME3: Acquire all trophies
Gold
Mass Effect
- Medal of Honor: ME1: Complete the game on any difficulty
- Completionist: ME1: Complete the majority of the game
- Principled: ME1: Accumulate 75% of total possible Paragon or Renegade points
- Colonial Savior: ME1: Complete the Bring Down the Sky mission
Mass Effect 2
- Mission Accomplished: ME2: Save humanity throughout the galaxy from certain annihilation
- No One Left Behind: ME2: Keep your team alive through the suicide mission
- Galactic Explorer: ME2: Visit 100% of the planets in an unexplored cluster
Mass Effect 3
- Legend: ME3: Mission accomplished
- Master and Commander: ME3: Deliver most of the Galaxy at War assets to the final conflict
- Under Pressure: ME3: Uncover an ancient secret
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
- Long Service Medal: Finish Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3 with the same character
Silver
Mass Effect
- Medal of Heroism: ME1: Complete Feros
- Distinguished Service Medal: ME1: Complete Eden Prime
- Council Legion of Merit: ME1: Complete Virmire
- Honorarium of Corporate Service: ME1: Complete Noveria
- Meritorious Service Medal: ME1: Complete Ilos
- Archivist: ME1: Find all primary Alien: Council Races, Extinct Races and Non-Council Races codex entries
- Medal of Exploration I: ME1: Land on an uncharted world
- Medal of Exploration II: ME1: Land on 4 uncharted worlds
- Medal of Exploration III: ME1: Land on 8 uncharted worlds
- Search and Rescue: ME1: Locate Dr. T'soni in the Artemis Tau cluster
Mass Effect 2
- Suicide Mission: ME2: Use the Omega 4 Relay
- Against All Odds: ME2: Survive suicide mission
- Agent: ME2: Complete 5 missions discovered by scanning unexplored worlds
- Operative: ME2: Complete a mission discovered by scanning an unexplored world
- Weapon Specialist: ME2: Fully upgrade a weapon
- Digital Exorcist: ME2: Successfully shut down the rogue VI in Project Overlord
- Heart of Darkness: ME2: Confront the Shadow Broker
Mass Effect 3
- Patriot: ME3: Make the final assault
- Lost and Found: ME3: Dispatch 10 probes to retrieve people or resources in Reaper territory
- Combined Arms: ME3: Perform any combination of 50 biotic combos or tech bursts
- Focused: ME3: Evolve any of your powers to rank 6
- Shield Breaker: ME3: Overload the shields of 100 enemies
- Sky High: ME3: Lift 100 enemies off the ground with powers
- Pyromaniac: ME3: Set 100 enemies on fire with powers
- Eye of the Hurricane: ME3: Kill a brute while it's charging you
- Mail Slot: ME3: Kill 10 guardians with headshots from the front while their shields are raised
- Gunsmith: ME3: Upgrade any weapon to level 10.
- Savior: ME3: Free Omega from Cerberus Occupation
- Last Resort: ME3: Stop an out-of-control scheme before it's too late
- The One and Only: ME3: Defeat a group of Spectre-level opponents on Normal, Hardcore, or Insanity
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
- Insanity I: Complete Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3 on Insanity without changing difficulty
- Insanity II: Complete two games in Mass Effect Legendary Edition on Insanity without changing difficulty
- Insanity III: Complete all three games in Mass Effect Legendary Edition on Insanity without changing difficulty
- Paramour III: Establish or rekindle a romantic relationship in all three games in Mass Effect Legendary Edition
- Veteran: Kill 2,000 enemies in Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3
Bronze
Mass Effect
- Lift Mastery: ME1: Use biotic Lift 25 times
- Throw Mastery: ME1: Use biotic Throw 25 times
- Warp Mastery: ME1: Use biotic Warp 25 times
- Singularity Mastery: ME1: Use biotic Singularity 25 times
- Barrier Mastery: ME1: Use biotic Barrier 25 times
- Stasis Mastery: ME1: Use biotic Stasis 25 times
- Damping Specialist: ME1: Use Damping Field 25 times
- AI Hacking Specialist: ME1: Use AI Hacking 25 times
- Electronic Specialist: ME1: Use Shield Overload 25 times
- Sabotage Specialist: ME1: Use Sabotage 25 times
- First Aid Specialist: ME1: Use medi-gel 50 times
- Neural Shock Specialist: ME1: Use Neural Shock 25 times
- Soldier Ally: ME1: Complete 5 missions with the Alliance soldier squad member
- Sentinel Ally: ME1: Complete 5 missions with the Alliance sentinel squad member
- Krogan Ally: ME1: Complete 5 missions with the krogan squad member
- Turian Ally: ME1: Complete 5 missions with the turian squad member
- Quarian Ally: ME1: Complete 5 missions with the quarian squad membe
- Asari Ally: ME1: Complete 5 missions with the asari squad member
- Spectre Inductee: ME1: Become a Spectre
- Charismatic: ME1: Use Charm or Intimidate to resolve an impossible situation
Mass Effect 2
- Missing in Action: ME2: Save your crew from an overwhelming attack
- Very Elusive: ME2: Return to active duty
- Colony Defense: ME2: Defend a human colony from attack
- Ghost Ship: ME2: Complete the investigation of a derelict alien vessel
- Friend or Foe: ME2: Obtain geth technology
- The Archangel: ME2: Successfully recruit Archangel
- The Assassin: ME2: Successfully recruit the Assassin
- The Convict: ME2: Successfully recruit the biotic Convict
- The Justicar: ME2: Successfully recruit the Justicar
- The Krogan: ME2: Successfully recruit the krogan
- The Professor: ME2: Successfully recruit the Professor
- The Quarian: ME2: Successfully recruit the quarian
- A House Divided: ME2: Hack a geth collective
- Battlemaster: ME2: Gain the loyalty of the krogan
- Cat's in the Cradle: ME2: Gain the loyalty of the Assassin
- Catharsis: ME2: Gain the loyalty of the biotic Convict
- Doppelganger: ME2: Help the Justicar resolve her mission
- Fade Away: ME2: Gain the loyalty of Archangel
- Ghost of the Father: ME2: Gain the loyalty of the Cerberus Operative
- The Cure: ME2: Gain the loyalty of the Professor
- The Prodigal: ME2: Gain the loyalty of the Cerberus Officer
- Treason: ME2: Gain the loyalty of the quarian
- Big Game Hunter: ME2: Thresher Maw defeated
- Head Hunter: ME2: Perform 30 headshot kills with any weapon on humanoid targets
- Incineration Specialist: ME2: Incinerate the armor of 25 enemies
- Merciless: ME2: Make 20 enemies scream as they fall or are set on fire
- Overload Specialist: ME2: Disrupt the shields of 25 enemies
- Tactician: ME2: Hit 20 different targets with multiple biotic powers to combine the effects
- Warp Specialist: ME2: Warp the barriers of 25 enemies
- Scientist: ME2: Complete any research project in the Normandy's laboratory
- Scholar: ME2: Unlock 15 new Mass Effect 2 codex entries
- Power Full: ME2: Evolve any power
- Revenge!: ME2: Gain the loyalty of the mercenary
- Broke, Blind, and Bedlam: ME2: Gain the loyalty of the thief
Mass Effect 3
- Driven: ME3: Return to active duty
- Bringer of War: ME3: Chase down an assassin
- Mobilizer: ME3: Bring a veteran officer aboard
- World Shaker: ME3: Destroy an Atlas dropped from orbit
- Pathfinder: ME3: Explore a lost city
- Tunnel Rat: ME3: Survive the swarm
- Party Crasher: ME3: Sabotage a dreadnought
- Hard Target: ME3: Call down an orbital strike
- Saboteur: ME3: Disable a group of fighter squadrons
- Arbiter: ME3: Win a political stand-off
- Last Witness: ME3: Extract ancient technology
- Executioner: ME3: Defeat an old adversary
- Well Connected: ME3: Send a warning across the galaxy
- Fact Finder: ME3: Discover an enemy's monstrous origin
- Liberator: ME3: Stop a Cerberus kidnapping
- Problem Solver: ME3: Evacuate a scientific facility
- Shopaholic: ME3: Visit a store on the Citadel
- A Personal Touch: ME3: Modify a weapon
- Untouchable: ME3: Escape a Reaper in the galaxy map
- Hijacker: ME3: Hijack an Atlas mech
- Giant Killer: ME3: Defeat a harvester
- Always Prepared: ME3: Obtain two non-customizable suits of armor
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition
- Paramour I: Establish a romantic relationship in Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3
- Paramour II: Establish or rekindle a romantic relationship in two games in Mass Effect Legendary Edition
- Recruit: Kill 250 enemies in Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3
- Solider: Kill 1,000 enemies in Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3
- Bruiser: Kill 100 enemies with melee attacks in Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3
It's clear that unlocking every trophy included in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is quite the tall order. With each individual game clocking anywhere between 20 and 40 hours for casual playthroughs, it's going to take the most diehard fan to unlock them all. The list is pretty much identical to the original release (with the exception of multiplayer trophies) so it should be expected that to get a few of the rare trophies, players might need to play through each game more than once.
Perhaps the most difficult trophies to unlock fall in the Legendary Edition list. Insanity I, Insanity II, and Insanity III are only unlocked by completing the games on the hardest difficulty, Insanity, without changing the set difficulty at all. Unlocking these trophies is not for the faint of heart as all of the Mass Effect games can be extremely punishing on Insanity.
With Mass Effect: Legendary Edition finally releasing today, it's only a matter of time until fans start showing off their completed trophy lists to the world. The only questions remaining are how long it will take for the first person to finish and who it will be.
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is available now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.